From Political Fringe to Political Mainstream: The Front National and the 2014 Municipal and European Elections in France

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Goodliffe
1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon Bogdanor

THE ELECTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN JUNE 1989 will be only the third ever to be held simultaneously in independent nation states. The first two direct elections, however, were marked almost everywhere by disappointment; not only was turnout low −60.7 per cent in 1979 and 57.0 per cent in 1984, but the elections seemed to be more in the nature of plebiscites on the performance of national governments, rather than genuinely transnational, and politicians found it difficult to demonstrate their relevance to a wider public. It is true that small radical new parties, such as the Front National were able to exploit the elections to their own advantage. But this, of course, did not endear the European elections to liberal democrats.


Author(s):  
Felix Syrovatka

After the latest european election, the Front National (National Front) is now the strongest party in France. With the aid of the hegemony theory, this article analyzes the contextual conditions for the rise of the Front National and the political strategy in the european elections campain. The aim of this article is to answer the question how the party managed to resolve the poor results of the presidential elections 2007 and gain such high approval rates in the latest elections.


1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (First Series (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lynch
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1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Gill Seidel
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Politix ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 155-157
Author(s):  
Nonna Mayer
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